Re: To "colon" or not to "colon"

[Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>]

On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Erik Cassel wrote:
> Notice how this is much more intuitive to users of javascript,  
> Java, C#, VB,
> etc. etc.

My feeling, as a longtime scripter in various languages, including  
JavaScript and Ruby:

There are infrequently but invariably times when I need to call a  
method on an object and pass in a different object as the scope to  
operate upon.

In JavaScript, I can do this with the .call() or .apply() methods.
With Lua, I can do this by not using the colon and explicitly passing  
in the scope object.
What you are proposing to do would disallow this. I'd stick with the  
colon.

My $.02